Looking back, 20 years ago we still had to do most things on (or at least with) your desktop PC, e.g. syncing your PDA or your iPod with a physical cable. Since then, tech has become much more pervasive throughout our homes and throughout our lives. And as discussed in the episode, that's been a mixed blessing.
Not me, I had smartphones in 2004 with wifi & web browser & camera etc & I did most things on laptops, even browsing the web on laptops I'd be using my mobile with 3G for the connection. Still the same today apart from i'm using 5G now, I had been using 4G for 10 years prior to 5G's arrival.
@-TheRealThing- sounds like you've been at the leading edge of tech trends for many years. I honestly can't remember what phone I had in 2004 but its functionality and connectivity must have been pretty limited. I guess the story of the last 25 years isn't just about tech becoming more pervasive, but also devices condensing down into one ubiquitous computer-in-your-pocket. Back around 2004 I was still driving to business meetings with the aid of my TomTom, listening to music on my MP3 player, and doing most of my work on desktop PCs. All of those things are now surplus to requirements...
So I was an avid gadget show viewer and I lamented its removal from our screens , specifically the shows original line up with Suzi Perry and Jason Bradbury - so when I saw this on TH-cam and Podcasts - I had to have a little blast from the past - however , you can take the presenter out of the show but you can’t take the show out of the presenter - this show is really better than ever , topical discussion, great reviews and full of ideas - keep going Suzy and Jason - I want to see what we are doing in 2050 ! Cheers !
I have a second 'retro' setup for dog walks, weekends and days off - my Minidisc player, paper novels, Nokia phone and hand-wound watch for digitally detoxxing and reducing anxiety :) Then back to my Watch Ultra, iPhone and Macbook for work in the week, highly recommend it.
Thanks again for the mention! You have done your research the Earl was the start which turned into the Nike adapt in which went to market and showed you. Love you guys and love the trio done memory lane episodes!!
The difference between 2004 and 2024 in gaming for me isn’t the tech. It’s the lack of fun games. The developers seem to have adopted an ‘eggs in one basket’ all or nothing release schedule. Where are the fun fantasy games and sequels? Stray was fun and Ratchet and Clank A Rift Apart but not much else. Sure I like Space Marine but would like a fantasy world you have time to explore with some puzzle solving without being too kiddified. Love the podcast.
The retro tech for me was my first toys like Action Man, that have all the accessories like shooting grappling hook, parachute, off-road skate board,... Love that action figure ❤❤❤❤. As proper tech my first gadget was GameBoy, with 10 games got it in 2000
So much of social media is junk now, I have no idea why people are so addicted to it? I do have a bit of a TH-cam addiction, but I feel its easier to find the good stuff here.
I remember getting my first broadband connection in 2004, it was so odd to have such high speeds and not have to turn it off so someone could use the phone.
thanks for another great episode guys! and thanks for keeping me sane! 🤣 im only 38 and i cant keep up with tech these days, im old skool i like things that built to last... keep warm n dry all, all the best from cornwall uk
I can tell you one area where 2004 completely beats 2024 hands down and that is the cost of gaming. Back in 2004, if you wanted to buy the latest game you'd head down to the appropriate store and spend £30? and maybe a little extra some months later, for an expansion pack, and that was it. But now, the financial model a lot of gaming companies have adopted is completely different and the cost is unlimited. I have a nephew who recently turned 13, and the amount of money that he has spent on Fortnight is eye watering, and for what? Even mobile phone apps or Ipad apps/games, I personally spend next to nothing, but I've read chat from players saying that they are leaving because they have spent too much money, like £100s in a single month. That would never have happened in 2004, and I think the companies behind these games have got far too greedy and it is only going to be a matter of time before some kind of governance is going to kick in. The Gambling Commission have already stated an interest in loot boxes in 2021.
Fascinating ep. Would love the teams thoughts on AI and crime, since this is a tech that scammers are currently using to drain people their money. They are way ahead of the authorities who are failing to combat it and it's extremely worrying!
smartphones - 2004 - I distinctly remember that O2 came out with a couple of models of the XDA which was the first synergy of a mobile phone and PDA running on Microsoft CE OS. Touchscreen, stylus, some with pop out keyboard and could take calls. One of my colleagues that had seen me with my XDA, his eyes popped out of his head when I took a call on it.
If someone had said to me back in 2004,in 20yrs time i could have a device that would hold all the top games on 1 hard drive ,with a massive 12 TB storage space ,and all installed on the drive 1 click away,well id be stunned ,even now it blows my mind ,how fortunate we are
On the phone thing, I loved my Motorola Razr phones. They were soo compact, they had some basic functions as well as the main function - to make and receive phone calls, with the odd text message from friends and family! These days my current phone is huge in comparison and I now turn it off! So I can get on with my life. Rather than a hundred notifications that somebody has posted a video on TH-cam, I have emails or messages. It completely spoils an evening out.
I still have my 3310 in a draw. My galexy watch 6 found my atrial fibrillation. Got my broad band in 1998. i even took the day of work the day it was turned on lol
Have to say, the piece with AI Anna was a bit mind blowing..... my wonder is, whats it going to look like in 5/10 years if its like that now? Maybe I worry about the kids growing up and experiencing a life full of this kind of stuff?
Hi Susie and Jason omg is this full circle. You mention a Casio watch ring been produced. But one was found in a Chinese toomb. 1000 years ago and now they are making one is this time travel catching up.
Those Casio rings are awful! Do you not remember ring watches? They very quickly ended up in seaside grabbed machines and in every cheap gift shop. Loving the content both, a great addition to my TH-cam subscribed channels! Love my retro tech and I'm still using an I-river music player daily (remember those?). Keep up the great videos, love it!
Amazon Alexa is one of the best bits of tech in 2024. I use it for so many things in my home, and I see it growing to be a massive part of everyone's smart home tech .....Obviously, there are so many other smart home products that make our lives easier ....
I had a Nokia Windows phone back in the day it had a signal wherever I went, not much else but it always had a signal. You'd think every modern phone would just basically work anywhere these days? No, they're too obsessed how good a photo can they take.
44:21 To watch that was truly frightening and depressing 😔 what is going to happen to so many, jobs, skills and human interactions and interests. So more people coming into this world and no work or place for them as we seemed so focused on building a digital civilization that can surpass us in just a few years just in the name of profits for the already ultra rich. Fascinating is not the word that comes to mind.
AI is realy amazing and scary at same time. when you query the ai it goes to its LLM and pretrained data to check it info and use Gen AI to auto gen answers. still amazing
AI should not be replacing us at meetings. AI should be an assistance - I mean having a summary would be useful, though I bet people would react differently knowing they are being recorded by an AI! But it won't tell you about the dynamics of the meeting, something a human would pick up (perhaps). And shouldn't AI be helping us with things like cooking or cleaning, not replacing us completely!
47:54 You've already started to prove my point. What about all those employed assistants or PA's they'll be redundant. What about our creative jobs, artists, writers and musicians that'll have nothing to offer that people will pay for or if they do share to platforms like TH-cam where their content taken and Ai face replace the artists which has already happened with some acoustic guitar videos, great players showing their work and an Ai generation face takes that art and the view count and money. Now today in 2024. What will this be in by 2029/30. It'll be a mess.
I seem to be meeting an awful lot of younger people looking and speaking like your AI guest. Could it be aliens are already living amongst us.............
In my humble opinion, AI is still a bit of a misnomer. In reality AI is akin to a super computer, able to access vast amounts of information, and hopefully sort the wheat from the chaff, but ultimately is still programmed by human beings to operate within a set of constraints. It isn't really intelligent, otherwise, the obvious iteration would be to ask AI to build the next gen of itself that could learn and evolve. I think the term AI is getting thrown around so much now, and to a certain extent nefariously to sell products, when it doesn't actually have any AI element. As impressive as it is, it still has a long way to go. Even now, on google, there is an AI generated script at the top, and I frequently find errors, because it is picking up incorrect online sources and using that to compile what is generated as a summary.
Late to this vid - 2024 = iterative (baby steps) 2004 - giant leaps for man(wait for woke)kind - I had the flip keyboard phone (email and little bit of web work) on the splash screen - was still running silicone graphic 4 processor workstation to a remote renderfarm - case in point just migrated from a iPhone 6s (circa 2018 ish I think to a 16 pro) major impression is battery life. Side note Suzi P’s hair rocks way better in 2024 - been getting on my feed a load of early doors Gadget show intros recently………Jason I guess you are tech Dorian Grey? no decernable changes.
Depends on the tech...the advancements are better but the quality of the product is worse. Reason I say this is pretty much ALL tech companies and pretty much everything you buy these days is not built to last. I want to buy a VR headset but seeing the batteries in them can't be removed and are made to only last a certain amount of time, that doesn't sit well with me, I look after my tech, always have so if I want to use something 10-20 years later I can but this stuff is dead after a few years, only place for it is the bin. We are constantly told WE should be responsible to help with climate change and waste, yet everything we buy is made to not last. I think the Gadget show and even government should start a campaign or something to end this. Tech especially needs to be built to last and every product you buy, you should be able to remove and replace the battery even if it means taking to a local shop to do it. Phones being one of the worst and phone batteries degrading after 2years to push you to buy the next model. Example in gaming, I have xbox360 controllers that still work perfectly today almost 20years later. I've had Series X controllers and they have drift within months of use and I'm not even a big gamer or a rage gamer.
@@mattfrancis4569 yeah some companies try to remove any chance of us repairing our stuff. My first 360 got the Red ring of death but I opened it up, followed a tutorial on here and was able to fix it. Its still being used about 3-4 times a week by my nephews
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I found AI Anna unbelievable that she,s not real.
Looking back, 20 years ago we still had to do most things on (or at least with) your desktop PC, e.g. syncing your PDA or your iPod with a physical cable.
Since then, tech has become much more pervasive throughout our homes and throughout our lives. And as discussed in the episode, that's been a mixed blessing.
Not me, I had smartphones in 2004 with wifi & web browser & camera etc & I did most things on laptops, even browsing the web on laptops I'd be using my mobile with 3G for the connection. Still the same today apart from i'm using 5G now, I had been using 4G for 10 years prior to 5G's arrival.
@-TheRealThing- sounds like you've been at the leading edge of tech trends for many years. I honestly can't remember what phone I had in 2004 but its functionality and connectivity must have been pretty limited.
I guess the story of the last 25 years isn't just about tech becoming more pervasive, but also devices condensing down into one ubiquitous computer-in-your-pocket. Back around 2004 I was still driving to business meetings with the aid of my TomTom, listening to music on my MP3 player, and doing most of my work on desktop PCs. All of those things are now surplus to requirements...
Desktop PCs are the best.
So I was an avid gadget show viewer and I lamented its removal from our screens , specifically the shows original line up with Suzi Perry and Jason Bradbury - so when I saw this on TH-cam and Podcasts - I had to have a little blast from the past - however , you can take the presenter out of the show but you can’t take the show out of the presenter - this show is really better than ever , topical discussion, great reviews and full of ideas - keep going Suzy and Jason - I want to see what we are doing in 2050 !
Cheers !
I have a second 'retro' setup for dog walks, weekends and days off - my Minidisc player, paper novels, Nokia phone and hand-wound watch for digitally detoxxing and reducing anxiety :) Then back to my Watch Ultra, iPhone and Macbook for work in the week, highly recommend it.
i was 30 i 2004. wow how far we have come.
Thanks again for the mention! You have done your research the Earl was the start which turned into the Nike adapt in which went to market and showed you. Love you guys and love the trio done memory lane episodes!!
You literally can say “hey siri,tighten my shoes” I feel i need to be a weekly guest at this rate haha
I Think Suzi is better then some AI Robot :D
The difference between 2004 and 2024 in gaming for me isn’t the tech. It’s the lack of fun games. The developers seem to have adopted an ‘eggs in one basket’ all or nothing release schedule. Where are the fun fantasy games and sequels? Stray was fun and Ratchet and Clank A Rift Apart but not much else. Sure I like Space Marine but would like a fantasy world you have time to explore with some puzzle solving without being too kiddified. Love the podcast.
The retro tech for me was my first toys like Action Man, that have all the accessories like shooting grappling hook, parachute, off-road skate board,...
Love that action figure ❤❤❤❤.
As proper tech my first gadget was GameBoy, with 10 games got it in 2000
So much of social media is junk now, I have no idea why people are so addicted to it? I do have a bit of a TH-cam addiction, but I feel its easier to find the good stuff here.
I miss blackberry phones, the qwerty keyboard was brilliant for my small fingers, and bbm messenger was ace
Watching your podcast on my iPad and Jason triggered my Siri looking for self lacing shoes 😂
I remember getting my first broadband connection in 2004, it was so odd to have such high speeds and not have to turn it off so someone could use the phone.
thanks for another great episode guys! and thanks for keeping me sane! 🤣 im only 38 and i cant keep up with tech these days, im old skool i like things that built to last... keep warm n dry all, all the best from cornwall uk
I can tell you one area where 2004 completely beats 2024 hands down and that is the cost of gaming.
Back in 2004, if you wanted to buy the latest game you'd head down to the appropriate store and spend £30? and maybe a little extra some months later, for an expansion pack, and that was it.
But now, the financial model a lot of gaming companies have adopted is completely different and the cost is unlimited. I have a nephew who recently turned 13, and the amount of money that he has spent on Fortnight is eye watering, and for what? Even mobile phone apps or Ipad apps/games, I personally spend next to nothing, but I've read chat from players saying that they are leaving because they have spent too much money, like £100s in a single month. That would never have happened in 2004, and I think the companies behind these games have got far too greedy and it is only going to be a matter of time before some kind of governance is going to kick in. The Gambling Commission have already stated an interest in loot boxes in 2021.
Fascinating ep. Would love the teams thoughts on AI and crime, since this is a tech that scammers are currently using to drain people their money. They are way ahead of the authorities who are failing to combat it and it's extremely worrying!
smartphones - 2004 - I distinctly remember that O2 came out with a couple of models of the XDA which was the first synergy of a mobile phone and PDA running on Microsoft CE OS. Touchscreen, stylus, some with pop out keyboard and could take calls. One of my colleagues that had seen me with my XDA, his eyes popped out of his head when I took a call on it.
I clearly remember paying £18 a month for a monthly sim only deal which gave you 15 minutes of calls and 60 texts a month! Bonkers.
If someone had said to me back in 2004,in 20yrs time i could have a device that would hold all the top games on 1 hard drive ,with a massive 12 TB storage space ,and all installed on the drive 1 click away,well id be stunned ,even now it blows my mind ,how fortunate we are
On the phone thing, I loved my Motorola Razr phones. They were soo compact, they had some basic functions as well as the main function - to make and receive phone calls, with the odd text message from friends and family! These days my current phone is huge in comparison and I now turn it off! So I can get on with my life. Rather than a hundred notifications that somebody has posted a video on TH-cam, I have emails or messages. It completely spoils an evening out.
yes i turn my data or wifi off just calls and texts if i want look anything internet related like facebook, utube ect... then i turn it back on
World over enough said 😄😄😄
I still have my 3310 in a draw.
My galexy watch 6 found my atrial fibrillation.
Got my broad band in 1998. i even took the day of work the day it was turned on lol
I had HTC which was branded Orange SPV in 2002 & it had wifi, web browser, camera etc
Have to say, the piece with AI Anna was a bit mind blowing..... my wonder is, whats it going to look like in 5/10 years if its like that now? Maybe I worry about the kids growing up and experiencing a life full of this kind of stuff?
Hi Susie and Jason omg is this full circle. You mention a Casio watch ring been produced. But one was found in a Chinese toomb. 1000 years ago and now they are making one is this time travel catching up.
Those Casio rings are awful! Do you not remember ring watches? They very quickly ended up in seaside grabbed machines and in every cheap gift shop.
Loving the content both, a great addition to my TH-cam subscribed channels!
Love my retro tech and I'm still using an I-river music player daily (remember those?).
Keep up the great videos, love it!
Amazon Alexa is one of the best bits of tech in 2024. I use it for so many things in my home, and I see it growing to be a massive part of everyone's smart home tech .....Obviously, there are so many other smart home products that make our lives easier ....
One of the worst devices made. I got fed up of shouting at it. Sold and went back to conventional radio and speakers.
Hindsight is a fabulous thing
I had a Nokia Windows phone back in the day it had a signal wherever I went, not much else but it always had a signal. You'd think every modern phone would just basically work anywhere these days? No, they're too obsessed how good a photo can they take.
I see that Jason has the Ableton Push and I think the Cirklon sequencer. Are there any plans to do a music tech feature?
Just imagine this.... an advertising pop up with an AI character calling you by your first name asking you to try or buy a product.
Was there any edits with the AI chat ? The responses were very quick
Forgot i was watching a A.I. blimey so real.
Btw translation device - timekettle. Been out for a year or two.
44:21 To watch that was truly frightening and depressing 😔 what is going to happen to so many, jobs, skills and human interactions and interests. So more people coming into this world and no work or place for them as we seemed so focused on building a digital civilization that can surpass us in just a few years just in the name of profits for the already ultra rich. Fascinating is not the word that comes to mind.
AI is realy amazing and scary at same time. when you query the ai it goes to its LLM and pretrained data to check it info and use Gen AI to auto gen answers. still amazing
What a treat, thank you for reading my comment Suzi and Jason
Anyone remember the British Psion with the spectrum, and the organiser, then the later ones..??
No??
It was the mid to late 1980s..
acoustic standing wave levitation
AI should not be replacing us at meetings. AI should be an assistance - I mean having a summary would be useful, though I bet people would react differently knowing they are being recorded by an AI! But it won't tell you about the dynamics of the meeting, something a human would pick up (perhaps). And shouldn't AI be helping us with things like cooking or cleaning, not replacing us completely!
Love the ai avatar . Where can you try this please?
Here you go: www.tavus.io
I'm so confused are these back?
47:54 You've already started to prove my point.
What about all those employed assistants or PA's they'll be redundant.
What about our creative jobs, artists, writers and musicians that'll have nothing to offer that people will pay for or if they do share to platforms like TH-cam where their content taken and Ai face replace the artists which has already happened with some acoustic guitar videos, great players showing their work and an Ai generation face takes that art and the view count and money. Now today in 2024. What will this be in by 2029/30. It'll be a mess.
AI anna blinking is reversed?
I seem to be meeting an awful lot of younger people looking and speaking like your AI guest. Could it be aliens are already living amongst us.............
In my humble opinion, AI is still a bit of a misnomer. In reality AI is akin to a super computer, able to access vast amounts of information, and hopefully sort the wheat from the chaff, but ultimately is still programmed by human beings to operate within a set of constraints. It isn't really intelligent, otherwise, the obvious iteration would be to ask AI to build the next gen of itself that could learn and evolve. I think the term AI is getting thrown around so much now, and to a certain extent nefariously to sell products, when it doesn't actually have any AI element. As impressive as it is, it still has a long way to go.
Even now, on google, there is an AI generated script at the top, and I frequently find errors, because it is picking up incorrect online sources and using that to compile what is generated as a summary.
Late to this vid - 2024 = iterative (baby steps) 2004 - giant leaps for man(wait for woke)kind - I had the flip keyboard phone (email and little bit of web work) on the splash screen - was still running silicone graphic 4 processor workstation to a remote renderfarm - case in point just migrated from a iPhone 6s (circa 2018 ish I think to a 16 pro) major impression is battery life. Side note Suzi P’s hair rocks way better in 2024 - been getting on my feed a load of early doors Gadget show intros recently………Jason I guess you are tech Dorian Grey? no decernable changes.
Who ever created that Anna AI definitely based that off thier wife or girlfriend 😂
Online gaming with random people holds no interest. I prefer coop games with a closed group of mates as per the old lan party era.
Honestly AI avatars just put me off, i would rather talk to a real person, have a presentation presented by a real person than an AI.
Depends on the tech...the advancements are better but the quality of the product is worse. Reason I say this is pretty much ALL tech companies and pretty much everything you buy these days is not built to last. I want to buy a VR headset but seeing the batteries in them can't be removed and are made to only last a certain amount of time, that doesn't sit well with me, I look after my tech, always have so if I want to use something 10-20 years later I can but this stuff is dead after a few years, only place for it is the bin. We are constantly told WE should be responsible to help with climate change and waste, yet everything we buy is made to not last. I think the Gadget show and even government should start a campaign or something to end this. Tech especially needs to be built to last and every product you buy, you should be able to remove and replace the battery even if it means taking to a local shop to do it. Phones being one of the worst and phone batteries degrading after 2years to push you to buy the next model. Example in gaming, I have xbox360 controllers that still work perfectly today almost 20years later. I've had Series X controllers and they have drift within months of use and I'm not even a big gamer or a rage gamer.
completly agree couldnt word any of this better myself my friend, i quite liked to repair things too... keep warm mate
@@mattfrancis4569 yeah some companies try to remove any chance of us repairing our stuff. My first 360 got the Red ring of death but I opened it up, followed a tutorial on here and was able to fix it. Its still being used about 3-4 times a week by my nephews
Does AI Anna want to be a real girl?
Dial up door bells 😜😜❤️🤪